John B. Youmans Papers
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John B. Youmans Papers 89
Table of Contents
Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3
Historical or Biographical Note.................................................................................................................... 4
Collection Scope and Content Summary...................................................................................................... 4
Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................5
Subject Headings........................................................................................................................................... 5
Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 6
Series 01: Personal................................................................................................................................. 6
Series 02: Nutrition Research, Vanderbilt............................................................................................. 8
Series 03: Nutrition Surveys, France and Germany...............................................................................8
Series 04: Nutrition Surveys, Far East...................................................................................................8
Series 05: ICNND Surveys.................................................................................................................... 9
Series 06: Personal Finances, Trips, Etc. I............................................................................................ 9
Series 07: Personal Finances, Trips, Etc. II........................................................................................... 9
Series 08: Personal Letters and Memoirs, 1923-1975......................................................................... 10
Series 09: Reprints from the Collection of John B. Youmans, M....................................................... 10
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Summary Information
Repository
EBL Manuscripts Collection
Creator
Youmans, John B., (John Barlow), 1893
Title
John B. Youmans Papers
Date [inclusive]
1914 - 1979
Extent
8.0 Cubic feet
Abstract
Personal papers of Vanderbilt professor of medicine and nutritionist
John B. Youmans (1893-1979). Materials include: correspondence,
biographical material; financial records; student notebooks; manuscripts;
reports; reprints; and files concerning Surgeon General's Office,
Rockefeller Foundation Nutrition Surveys, Far East Nutrition Surveys, and
ICNND Surveys.
Preferred Citation
John B. Youmans Papers. Eskind Biomedical Library Special Collections, Vanderbilt University Medical
Center, Nashville, TN.
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Historical or Biographical Note
John B. Youmans (1893-1979) was a physician, teacher, researcher, and author. He received his M.S.
from the University of Wisconsin in 1916 and his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine in 1919. He then had an Internship at the Milwaukee Children's Hospital in 1920. In 1921 Dr.
Youmans was the Medical House Officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He then was Assistant
in Medicine at Johns Hopkins in 1922. At the University of Michigan Dr. Youmans went from Instructor
to Assistant Professor of Medicine during the time period from 1922-1927. He then came to Vanderbilt
University School of Medicine; he was first an Assistant Professor and later a Professor of Medicine,
from 1927-1944. During World War II he was a Colonel and Head of the Armed Forces Nutrition
Services of the Office of the Surgeon General from 1942-1948. He then served as Dean and Professor of
Medicine at the University of the Illinois College of Medicine from 1946-1950. He returned to Vanderbilt
as Dean, Professor of Medicine, and Director of Medical Affairs from 1950-1958. Then he served as the
Technical Director of Research for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command from
1958-1960.
For more information and pictures please see the VUMC Online Images and Biography of Dr. Youmans.
Collection Description
Personal papers of Vanderbilt professor of medicine and nutritionist John B. Youmans (1893-1979).
Materials include: correspondence, biographical material; financial records; student notebooks;
manuscripts; reports; reprints; and files concerning Surgeon General's Office, Rockefeller Foundation
Nutrition Surveys, Far East Nutrition Surveys, and ICNND Surveys. Nutrition surveys from France,
Germany, and the Far East were mostly conducted during or soon after World War II. ICNND nutrition
surveys were conducted mostly from 1955-1958.
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Administrative Information
Publication Information
EBL Manuscripts Collection 2004-10-29
Notes about Access to this Collection
All collections are subject to applicable VUMC privacy and confidentiality policies. Collection specific
restrictions: No Restrictions.
Reproduction Rights
Copyright is retained by Eskind Biomedical Library Special Collections.
Subject Headings
Personal Name(s)
Youmans, John B., (John Barlow), 1893
Subject(s)
Medical Education
Military Medicine
Nutrition
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Personal
Collection Inventory
Series 01: Personal
Box
Folder
John B. Youmans Biographical File.
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File folder: "Youmans, John, M.D., Donations 1979." Catalogue of reprint
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collection; duplicates of ther lists and correspondece.
Biographical sketch of Dr. John Youmans by Dr. R.H. Kampmeier (with
appendix by Dr. W.J. Darby); reprint from AIN (1986), with typed drafts
and bibliography. Also reprints and articles by Dr. Youmans, newspaper
obituaries, etc. Filed in brown wallet.
Mounted photographs of Dr. Youmans, Helen Frank, and others, c1935. 2
identical copies; backing of one torn.
Photograph: Sam Riven, Clarence Thomas, David Strayhorn, Frank Luton,
Rudolph Kampmeier, John Youmans, and Albert Weinstein, 1958 (i.d. from
Dr. Kampmeier's book).
Resolution honoring Dr. Youmans upon his retirement as Dean of the
Medical College, University of Illinois, 1950. Bound in leather.
Souvenier album of the New York Academy of Sciences Conference on
Bioflavonoids and the Capillary (February 11, 1955); photographs of Dr.
Youmans and other participants.
Copy of Popular Science Monthly, vol. XXXVII, no. 1 (May, 1890).
"Established by Edward L. Youmans;" contains article on Dr. E.L. Youmans
(pp.1-18), with a testimonial to him by Herbert Spencer.
"Collins Gentleman's Day Book No. 173." Personal diary kept by Dr.
Youmans during his work for Rockefeller Commission in Paris, November,
1940-July, 1941 (see Box 2). Filed in manila envelope.
"Loose items in Dr. Youmans' diary of survey in Unoccupied France" (see
Box 2). Address book and rough notes. Filed in gray campus mail envelope.
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Personal
Personal diary kept during Dr. Youmans' wartime service in China, c1944
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Vanderbilt material (2 files)
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Photographs, portraits, and memorabilia
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"The Physician's Perfect Call List and Record." Medical notebooks of Dr.
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(see Box 3). Some pages in pencil; partly illegible. Cover and outer pages
detached. Contains calling cards, messages, etc. Filed in manila envelope.
3 memorandum books containing notes on a trip to the "Near, Middle, and
Far East" January-March, 1959. Filed in manila envelope.
Booklet (including photograph) for program "honoring Dean Charles
R. Bardeen on... the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the
medical school of the University of Wisconsin" (n.d.)
"Hopkins Recollections, Fort Meade, & Hospital Train[ing?], Dr. Youmans,
Fall of 1918."
Certificate transferring Col. John B. Youmans, M.D. to the U.S. Army
Retired Reserve, 1954. In file folder.
Correspondence with Dr. G.T. Vander Lugt, President of Carrol College,
concerning Dr. Youmans' representation of the college (as an alumnus) at
the dedication of the Joint University Libraries (1941). Also a copy of the
dedication program. In file
Correspondence with Dr. G.T. Vander Lugt, President of Carrol College,
concerning Dr. Youmans' representation of the college (as an alumnus) at
the dedication of the Joint University Libraries (1941). Also a copy of the
dedication program. In file folder.
L.E. Youmans (John Youmans' father), c1910-20.
2 medical formularies dated 1887 and 1888, probably belonging to Dr.
Youmans' father or grandfather.
2 student notebooks belonging to John B. Youmans: physiology (1915) and
therapeutics (1917).
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Nutrition Research, Vanderbilt
Reprint and draft manuscripts of a paper by Dr. Youmans: "Benjamin
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Box
Folder
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Other Rockefeller Foundation material, 1939-46.
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Nutrition Survey, Germany, 1945-1947. (Most material removed for
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Box
Folder
Nutrition Survey, Chinese Army, 1944-45.
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Nutrition Survey, Pacific Theatre, 1945.
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Barrneku--Negro--Early American Mathematician and Astronomer."
Series 02: Nutrition Research, Vanderbilt
Correspondence relating to Rockefeller Foundation nutrition study at
Vanderbilt (1939-45) and other nutrition work.
Reprints and drafts of articles and papers based on Dr. Youmans' nutrition
work at Vanderbilt, 1932-45.
Reports and other data from Vanderbilt nutrition study, 1932-45.
Series 03: Nutrition Surveys, France and Germany
Rockefeller Foundation Health Commission, Unoccupied France,
1940-1941.
Further correspondence regarding Rockefeller Foundation work in Europe,
1941-44.
Youmans Collection at the National Library of Medicine.)
Surgeon General's Office correspondence, 1944-49.
Series 04: Nutrition Surveys, Far East
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ICNND Surveys
"Report to the Surgeon General on Medical Installations in the Far East
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ICNND Surveys: Pakistan, Iran, Korea, 1955-56.
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ICNND Surveys: Spain and Greece, 1957-58.
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Personal Finances, mostly 1950's.
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Dr. Youmans' Telephone Bills
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Dr. Youmans' Trips, 1946-50.
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Command." Includes: (i) correspondence with Lt. Col. Charles Gingles of
Surgeon General's Office concerning Dr. Youmans' possible participation in
a Far East tour (1948-49), (i
"Report to the Surgeon General on Medical Installations in the Far East
Command." Includes: (i) correspondence with Lt. Col. Charles Gingles of
Surgeon General's Office concerning Dr. Youmans' possible participation
in a Far East tour (1948-49), (ii) four reports by officers who inspected
medical installations in Far East, c1950.
Copy of Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental, vol. V, no. 3 (May, 1956),
containing "Sudies on Nutrition in the Far East" by officers of the Surgeon
General's Office.
Series 05: ICNND Surveys
Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defense (ICNND):
General.
Series 06: Personal Finances, Trips, Etc. I
Series 07: Personal Finances, Trips, Etc. II
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Personal Letters and Memoirs, 1923-1975
Box
Folder
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Box
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Personal correspondence, 1923-26.
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Photographic negative of a child, c1920.
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"Notes on Happenings at the University of Michigan Medical School and in
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Dr. Youmans' Trips
Series 08: Personal Letters and Memoirs, 1923-1975
the department of Internal Medicine Particularly." Handwritten and typed
drafts of a text by Dr. Youmans, with related correspondence, c1975.
Series 09: Reprints from the Collection of John B. Youmans, M
Contains catalogue. Most reprints date from 1880\'s-1920\'s. These
reprints were collected by Dr. Youmans\' father. Also contains the reprint
\"Vanderbilt- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow\", from the Journal of the
Tennessee Medical Association, Vol. 59, No.
Contains catalogue. Most reprints date from 1880\'s-1920\'s. These
reprints were collected by Dr. Youmans\' father. Also contains the reprint
\"Vanderbilt- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow\", from the Journal of the
Tennessee Medical Association, Vol. 59, No. 1, January, 1966.
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